Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Manning, original name Bradley Edward Manning
(born December 17, 1987, Crescent, Oklahoma, U.S.), U.S. Army intelligence analyst who provided the Web site WikiLeaks with hundreds of thousands of classified documents in what was believed to be the largest unauthorized release of state secrets in U.S. history.

Bradley Manning’s father was skilled with computers, and this affinity was passed to his son. Manning was a precocious child and excelled in academics. After his parents divorced in 2000, Manning, then aged 13, revealed to his mother and his close friends that he was gay. As relations soured with his father, Manning moved ... (100 of 638 words)